Patrick Higgins, Jr.

Radiohead, Mortenson, Illiteracy, and Visualizing

In ascd, writing on March 17, 2009 at 8:44 am

I’ve posted this before at some point, but in reference to my conversation with Greg Mortenson on Saturday at ASCD, it popped out in my mind as something I should revisit.  Mortenson points out that there are 110 million children in the world that are illiterate.  When you view this video, it begins to take shape mentally.  Much like Chris Jordan does with his work on visualizing waste, this truly pulls the illiteracy problem worldwide into focus.

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